UMA BREVE HISTÓRIA DESTE NAVIO.
Casco nr.37
N/M Itapagé / PPET (IMO 7052222)
Suas principais características técnicas eram:
10.488 ton - dwt
10.230 ton - grt
160,94 m de comprimento total
149,56 m de comprimento entre perpendiculares
23,09 m de boca
11,40 m de pontal
9,60 m de calado máximo carregad
Passenger-Refrigerated Cargo Liner, Motor Vessel Meteor, (IMO Number: 5233535; Official Number: GRC: 4307), launched, Thursday, 06/05/1954, to yard number 104, by Aalborg Vaerft, Aalborg, Denmark, and completed and delivered, Friday, 14/01/1955, to Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab, Bergen, Norway, reg
Passenger-Refrigerated Cargo Liner, Motor Vessel Meteor, (IMO Number: 5233535; Official Number: GRC: 4307), launched, Thursday, 06/05/1954, to yard number 104, by Aalborg Vaerft, Aalborg, Denmark, and completed and delivered, Friday, 14/01/1955, to Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab, Bergen, Norway, reg
Dear All,
The ship in this little (8" x 6") oil painting is a passenger liner of the early years of the twentieth century. She has a dark navy hull with red boot-topping and a white superstructure, with a vertical prow and counter stern; her bridge is forward (with prominent bridge wings) and...
Built by J. & G. Thomson for the Cunard Line in 1882, she was a near sister to Servia and Oregon. On her maiden voyage in 1883, she suffered a mechanical breakdown. Her shaft bearing overheated, causing an explosion. Fortunately there was no loss of life. She was a fast liner in her own
This vintage photograph of the Queen Mary shows an electronics rack that was not an original fitment, and does not normally feature in published pictures of her wheelhouse.
Looks like an early radar system? Maybe 1950's? Anybody know anything about this?
'Aquitania' under construction at John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank in 1913, where the majority of the Cunard ships were built. Her keel was laid in the same plot that had famously served building Lusitania and that would later be used for building Queen Mary.
This view is from a position north of